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Given the choice between hearing a bunch of folks I know on the board say "You brought WHAT?" versus hearing my wife say "What do you mean, we're NOT going away for the weekend???", I knew where I was going to end up.

When you have them by the .....

That is too funny, my wife was looking forward to that trip as well so I imagine that I would have faced a similar response, had I had a similar dilemma.

But you did have to endure being presented with a LEXUS gift bag too, in addition to all of the teasing!

Met with Mr. and Mrs. Bemo at Lime Rock yesterday to go over the details of the trip and check out some of the placed we will be visiting,

These are the preliminary plans and details wiil be posted shortly.

This will be a two day event (Saturday and Sunday) and some may want to arrive Friday night,

The Wake Robin Inn in Lakeville, Ct. is reserving a block of rooms until the end of August. We will be able to book one or two nights. Alternately rooms can be booked at the Iron Masters Inn which is a motel down the road. A bit less elegant but also slightly less expensive. Both placed serve complimentary breakfast, Friday night dinner will be at the Boathouse Restaraurt in Lakeville which is a 5 minute drive from either loction.

Saturday morning arter breakfast we will drive to Lime Rock and meet in the Sunoco Paddock at Lime Rock which will be reseverved for us. We will stop by the Lime Rock Club Clubhouse and then head down to Michelin Tower (the timing tower). We will raffle off Hot Laps with one of the Club Instructors in the Clubs M3. We will then have a brief tour of the track. Lunch will be at the Lime Rock Cafe (which is nothing fancy - burgers, sandwiches, etc.), We will then head out for a drive on some of the areas scenic roads, stop for a picture taking opportunity at "Captain Audio's Driveway" (Housatonic Meadows State Park) and contintue on to the Falls Village Inn for dinner, The Falls Village Inn is going to prepare a Prix Fixe menu with several menu choices and we will have our own private room.

Sunday morning after breakfast we will head to Winsted CT. (we will pick some scenic road) for a private tour of The American Mural Project and then we will all head home.

Here is an in car video from a few years ago that a friend of mine who was my guest at the Drivers Club took of a hot lap around LRP in an M5 (which was the pace car that year).
"Sideways Simon" Kirkby, who is the director and chief instructor fot the Drivers Club is at the wheel. At 1:49 you can see why the Cayman Club named him "Sideways Simon" after a few of them (and Bimmerfester Professor Cook) took hot laps with him in an M3. Drifiting may not be the fastest way around Big Bend but it makes for a spectacular ride,